Welcome to the Steamboat LAGOM website

To construct and run a steamboat is certainly a quite unusual hobby.

When we started in 2005 we didn't reckon with the wide resonance, the flood of questions about our project that later reached us from different sides. Soon we decided that a web page would be the most suitable medium to give full answers to all inquiries. So we documented and photographed every essential step and published the material in the photo galleries of this page.

Later on we assembled a detailed description of our work and the adventures during the building process in the book „Dampfpinasse LAGOM, die Geschichte vom Bau eins Dampfbootes“ (ISBN: 978-3-7883-2113-0)

In spring 2009 we had done it. To our surprise the boat's first test run on the Danish river Ribe Au was quite successful. Nevertheless some details had to be improved and even today needs or wishes exist to optimise parts of the power unit. Of course, we will report future work here.